How it started

Not another talk about R

Scientific measuring of Community

In a paper called Sense of Community in Science Fiction Fandom Professor of Psychology, Seymour Bernard Sarason was mentioned has having

… noted that it necessarily implies a value judgment not compatible with hard science and yet he stated “you know when you have it and when you don’t”

Further research

Two other authors McMillan and Chavis expanded on this in 1985 and revisited in 1996, to detail four specific but interconnected elements:

Key point

The authors suggest that the more people interact, the more likely they are to form close relationships. The more positive this interaction, the stronger the bond developed.

Hmmm… questions

Shared goals

We probably need a vision, an action plan, that type of thing.

We need access to the right tools

We need to share our code as standard

Government Service Manual says:

It is much easier to write your code in the open from the beginning of a project than it is to to open an existing repository later, because you can address security and other issues as you go along. If you do not do this, you will have to spend a costly period of time at the end of the project checking your code is all safe to be released.

We need to build capacity in the analytical workforce